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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Portland, OR
NWS Portland, OR issued this high wind warning at Feb 23, 2025, 1:52 PM PST for 9 counties in Oregon; Cowlitz County, Pacific County, Wahkiakum County, Washington. It took effect at Feb 24, 2025, 7:00 AM PST. It was in force for 21 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2025, 1:52 PM PST (21:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2025, 7:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2025, 4:00 AM PST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Portland, OR
Counties Benton County, OR, Clatsop County, OR, Columbia County, OR, Lane County, OR, Lincoln County, OR, Polk County, OR, Tillamook County, OR, Washington County, OR, Yamhill County, OR, Cowlitz County, WA, Pacific County, WA, Wahkiakum County, WA
The radar
The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 292 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Feb 23, 10:09 AM PST, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 10:09 AM PST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Portland, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 6:49 PM PST | High Wind Watch | PQR | Benton, Clatsop, Columbia, Lane, Lincoln, Polk and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Feb 22, 7:50 PM PST | Storm Warning | PQR | 56 hr | |
| Feb 22, 7:58 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | PQR | Clatsop, Lane, Lincoln, Tillamook | 32 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:26 AM PST | Wind Advisory | PQR | Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Lane, Lincoln and 7 more | 50 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:32 AM PST | Gale Warning | PQR | 10 hr | |
| Feb 23, 8:32 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory | PQR | 19 hr | |
| Feb 23, 2:07 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PQR | Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania | 50 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Oregon, 2025High Wind Warnings in Washington, 2025Every high wind warning in 2025
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.